As far as using the new features, how many people actually can/are? I can agree that they're needed, and I'm glad that they're coming, but support in browsers i

As far as using the new features, how many people actually can/are? I can agree that they're needed, and I'm glad that they're coming, but support in browsers is variable at best, meaning you can't really use it in the front-end for anything in production without a transpiler, which IMHO mostly defeats the purpose. When you try to actually debug something, you have to deal with the mental translation of going back and forth between the translated/compiled stuff that's actually running and the source code. Could be different for stuff running in Node on the server, but then according to this, Node native support for ES6 features varies between bare-bones and not very tested to nonexistent. So we're back to transpilers again, not quite as much of a pain on the server, but still not great.